I actually used this feature (a null list) to do a mass delete (archive) one
time.  It made the program really sporty with respect  to run time since I
never transferred the data to the program during the DBGET to set the delete
pointer.   :-)

Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                          --Author unknown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne R. Boyer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:01 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Image Calls not working
>
> In a message dated 4/4/03 10:47:04 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask]
> writes:
>
>
> > A munged item-list can give you 'successfull' calls to dbget but no
> actual
> > data being read.  Does this match your symptoms?
> >
>
> I 'tested' that once by accident.  Sure is 'successfull' - did just what I
> asked it to do!  Retrieved nothing.  Ooops!  Could have saved myself a
> couple
> of hours of trial and error debugging by studying the parameters a little
> harder.  Maybe I could even have DISPLAYed their contents before the
> CALL...
> then my error would have been obvious.  Live and learn.
>
>

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